The Zulu War (Men-at-Arms 57) ... Author: Angus McBride Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; January 1 1976; 48 pages ... By the end of the nineteenth century the fame of the Zulu was world-wide, and their army was one of the few non-European military organisations to have become the subject...

Saxon, Viking and Norman (Men-at-Arms 85) ... Author: Terence Wise Illustrator: Gerry Embleton ... Paperback; March 22 1979; 48 pages ... If there is one thing we can be sure of concerning the Saxons, Vikings and Normans who inhabited the medieval world, it is that they were a good deal more...

Medieval Heraldry (Men-at-Arms 99) ... Author: Terence Wise ... Paperback; March 26 1980; 48 pages ... Coats of arms were at first used only by kings and princes, then by their great nobles, but by the mid-13th century arms were being used extensively by the lesser nobility, knights and those who...

The Mongols (Men-at-Arms 105) ... Author: Stephen Turnbull Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; November 20 1980; 48 pages ... The history of the Mongol armies is a catalogue of superlatives. No armies in history have ever won so many battles or conquered so much territory. No army has ever...

Armies of the Carthaginian Wars 265 146 BC (Men-at-Arms 121) ... Author: Terence Wise Illustrator: Richard Hook ... Paperback; March 25 1982; 48 pages ... The epic conflict between Rome and Carthage remains one of the most compelling stories of military history. The wars included such legendary...

Rome's Enemies (1) Germanics and Dacians (Men-at-Arms 129) ... Author: Peter Wilcox Illustrator: Gerry Embleton ... Paperback; November 25 1982; 48 pages ... These vigorous northern 'barbarians' were the destroyers of the Western Empire of Rome. It was they who delivered the coup de gr ce to the...

Germany's Eastern Front Allies 1941 45 (Men-at-Arms 131) ... Author: Peter Abbott Illustrator: Mike Chappell ... Paperback; November 25 1982; 48 pages ... The 1930s were a time of growing tension for the smaller states of Eastern Europe. Since the end of the First World War they had enjoyed an...

The Age of Charlemagne (Men-at-Arms 150) ... Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; July 26 1984; 48 pages ... Most historians agree that the Carolingian Age, from the 8th to 10th centuries AD, represented one of the most important turning points in European history. It...

Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars (Men-at-Arms 154) ... Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; March 26 1984; 48 pages ... The Arthurian Age; the Celtic Twilight; the Dark Ages; the Birth of England; these are the powerfully romantic names often given to one of the most...

The Royal Marines 1956-84 (Men-at-Arms 156) ... Author: Will Fowler Illustrator: Paul Hannon ... Paperback; November 22 1984; 48 pages ... The Royal Marine Corps traditionally attracts the most highly motivated and intelligent recruits; to pass the Commando course as well as to learn a wide...

Saladin and the Saracens (Men-at-Arms 171) ... Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; March 26 1992; 48 pages ... Salah al Din Yusif ibn Ayyub, known to his Muslim contemporaries as al Nasi, 'The Victorious', and to an admiring Europe as Saladin, is the most famous single...

Hungary and the Fall of Eastern Europe 1000 1568 (Men-at-Arms 195) ... Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; March 24 1988; 48 pages ... Although not widely studied in the West, the medieval history of south-eastern Europe is both fascinating and complex. The Kingdom of...

Flags of the Third Reich (3) Party & Police Units (Men-at-Arms 278) ... Author: Brian L Davis Illustrator: Malcolm McGregor ... Paperback; November 14 1994; 48 pages ... In his book Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler claims that he made the decision to use the swastika as the emblem for his fledgling...

The Border Reivers (Men-at-Arms 279) ... Author: Keith Durham Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; March 13 1995; 48 pages ... From the 13th century until early in the 17th century the Border Marches of England and Scotland were torn by a vicious and almost continuous cycle of raid, reprisal...

The French Army 1914 18 (Men-at-Arms 286) ... Author: Ian Sumner Illustrator: Gerry Embleton ... Paperback; July 17 1995; 48 pages ... Initially the strongest of all the Allied armies, France's metropolitan and colonial units bore the greatest burden during the first two years of the Great War,...

Chinese Civil War Armies 1911 49 (Men-at-Arms 306) ... Author: Philip Jowett Illustrator: Stephen Andrew ... Paperback; July 15 1997; 48 pages ... The fall of the Manchu Empire in 1911 ended thousands of years of Imperial rule and ushered in almost 40 years of conflict in China. From the...

US Marine Corps in World War I 1917 18 (Men-at-Arms 327) ... Author: Mark Henry Illustrator: Darko Pavlovic ... Paperback; May 28 1999; 48 pages ... Though the US Marines initially struggled to maintain their distinctive identity within the huge American Expeditionary Force in France, their...

French Armies of the Hundred Years War (Men-at-Arms 337) ... Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; February 15 2000; 48 pages ... The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were a time of great upheaval for medieval France. In 1328 the Capetian line came to an end. This was...

British Air Forces 1914 18 (1) (Men-at-Arms 341) ... Author: Andrew Cormack Illustrator: Peter Cormack ... Paperback; July 25 2000; 48 pages ... The outbreak of World War I found the British Army's Royal Flying Corps with just over 200 fragile, unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, and a uniformed...

The Moors The Islamic West 7th 15th Centuries AD (Men-at-Arms 348) ... Author: David Nicolle Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; January 25 2001; 48 pages ... The high point of medieval Islamic expansion was the 700-year presence of the 'Moors' in Spain and Portugal. The Arab and Berber...

British Air Forces 1914 18 (2) (Men-at-Arms 351) ... Author: Andrew Cormack Illustrator: Peter Cormack ... Paperback; March 25 2001; 48 pages ... The outbreak of World War I found the British Army's Royal Flying Corps with just over 200 fragile, unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, and a uniformed...

World War II Allied Women's Services (Men-at-Arms 357) ... Author: Martin Brayley Illustrator: Ramiro Bujeiro ... Paperback; September 25 2001; 48 pages ... The contribution of women to the Allied war effort in 1939-45 was massive. Apart from their many vital roles 'on the home front', about a...

World War II German Battle Insignia (Men-at-Arms 365) ... Author: Gordon Williamson Illustrator: Darko Pavlovic ... Paperback; March 25 2002; 48 pages ... The remarkable war effort of the German armed forces on three fronts between 1939 and 1945 was recognised by a wider range of insignia than...

Armies of the German Peasants' War 1524 26 (Men-at-Arms 384) ... Author: Douglas Miller Illustrator: Angus McBride ... Paperback; February 19 2003; 48 pages ... In the 1520s, a brief but savage war broke out in Germany when various insurgent groups rose to overthrow the power structure. The...

The British Army in World War I (1) The Western Front 1914 16 (Men-at-Arms 391) ... Author: Mike Chappell Illustrator: Mike Chappell ... Paperback; September 25 2003; 48 pages ... At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the British Army was unique: unlike the massed conscripts of the...

Warrior Peoples of East Africa 1840 1900 (Men-at-Arms 411) ... Author: CJ Peers Illustrator: Raffaele Ruggeri ... Paperback; June 9 2005; 48 pages ... Less well known than the Zulu of South Africa, the warriors of East Africa had just as fearsome a reputation. This fascinating study, illustrated...

The Irish Defence Forces since 1922 (Men-at-Arms 417) ... Author: Donal MacCarron Illustrator: Bill Younghusband ... Paperback; October 22 2004; 48 pages ... Born in the Civil War of 1922 23, the army of the Republic of Ireland occupied a sensitive place in the national culture for many years. In...

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest (Men-at-Arms 418) ... Author: Elizabeth Von Aderkas Illustrator: Christa Hook ... Paperback; May 8 2005; 48 pages ... The Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest, both on the Coast and the inland Plateau, were the last to encounter white traders and...

German Armies 1870 71 (2) Prussia's Allies (Men-at-Arms 422) ... Author: Michael Solka Illustrator: Darko Pavlovic ... Paperback; February 5 2005; 48 pages ... Although the war of 1870 71 has gone down in history as the 'Franco-Prussian War', nearly half of the German troops sent to the frontier...

The Confederate Army 1861 65 (2) Florida, Alabama & Georgia (Men-at-Arms 426) ... Author: Ron Field Illustrator: Richard Hook ... Paperback; August 10 2005; 48 pages ... The common image of the Confederate Army during the Civil War is dominated by a limited number of early photographs of officers...

The most exotic of all the troops of Napoleon s Imperial Guard were undoubtedly the Mamelukes the bodyguard of Oriental cavalry which followed him home after the Egyptian expedition of 1798 1801, and remained with his Mounted Chasseurs regiment throughout the First Empire. For the first time in...

The 'Confrontation' between Malaysia and Indonesia in Borneo - the war against Indonesian raids across a 900-mile border - eventually involved nearly 20,000 British and Commonwealth troops, with air and naval support; and yet, by mutual consent, astonishingly little was reported at the time. This...

The German police in World War II were not a single service, but a vast machine which included many special categories - from conventional criminal detectives, municipal and rural police; to many police combat battalions sent to Russia; to border and customs police, and special railway and...

This book describes the organization, lists the units and illustrates the uniforms and equipment of the four Canadian divisions which earned an elite reputation on the Western Front in 1915-18. Canada's 600,000 troops - of whom more than 66,000 died and nearly 150,000 were wounded - represented...

Napoleon's Polish Lancers of the Guard were unique in their appearance and in their loyalty. This book reveals their varied and colorful uniforms as well as their long and loyal service for the Bonaparte cause. The Poles were the only foreign contingent never to defect from Napoleon's cause,...

This book not only offers a tribute to the proud Highlander regiments who have served with distinction for over two centuries, but also offers an in-depth study of the period in which they made their name. As the British Empire dominated every corner of the globe, Queen Victoria's Highlanders...

A concise history of the hand-picked elite cavalry guard that served as Napoleon's close personal escort and were committed to the most dangerous areas of combat on the battlefield. Formed from his original escort of Guides and the Consular Guard in 1799, the Mounted Chasseurs were a personal...

The Czech Legion was not just a single military unit, but a volunteer army that fielded up to 100,000 troops on the Allied side on the three major fronts of the war. Since only the defeat of Austro-Hungary and Germany offered any hope of Czech national independence, they were amongst the most...

Some 150,000 Irish-American immigrants served in the Union Army, most of them from Boston, New York and Chicago, and about 40,000 fought in the Confederate Army. The best known unit was the Irish Brigade of the Union Army of the Potomac, which distinguished itself at Antietam and, particularly,...

The Roman Navy, although somewhat overshadowed by the legions, played an important role for the Roman Empire. For the Army to conquer and rule its vast territories, control of the sea lanes was essential. The navy fleets needed to be structured and powerful in order to dominate the trade routes,...

While small in numbers, the Belgian Army played a vital role in World War 1 that is often overlooked. Germany's invasion of neutral Belgium, which led Britain to declare war in August 1914, should have been swift and fierce yet the unexpected heroic defence, against great odds, of Belgian...

Contrary to popular belief, the capture of India was not accomplished by the British Army, but by the private armies of the East India Company, which grew in size to become larger than that of any European sovereign state. This is the history of its army, examining the many conflicts they fought,...

The Seminole of Florida were one of five so-called Civilized Tribes' who for many years lived in peace with the settlers. However, by 1815, frontier Americans had grown increasingly envious of their relative wealth and land, and resentful of their harbouring of former slaves. This book reveals...

Mounted upon their huge black horses, the Mounted Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard were the senior heavy cavalry unit of the French army and were never defeated in battle. Their long list of battle honors earned them the nicknames 'the Giants' and 'the Gods'. ... In this latest addition to the...

This history of the Catholic armies of the Hapsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years War explores the role of infantry and artillery during the last major religious war in mainland Europe. As the states of the Holy Roman Empire fractured along religious lines, all of Europe was plunged into...

Rottman's latest title discusses the original reorganization of Vietnam forces, from the original colonial structure implemented by the French into the first national army of Vietnam. Complete with a detailed history of the command structure and orders of battle, Rottman sheds light on the little...

The Varangian Guards were Viking mercenaries who operated far beyond their native shores as an elite force within the Byzantine Armies. Descendants from a legendary line of warriors, the Varangian Guard was formed after a group of Viking mercenaries made a major contribution to the Byzantine...

The Seven Years’ War in Germany was characterised by an increasing use of ‘light’ troops in conjunction with regular infantry and cavalry as part of an ongoing evolution in military tactics. This book draws attention to these tactical developments and also provides an analysis of the allied army...

This volume covers the classic Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion. Legion battalions fought in the deserts and mountains of southern Algeria and Morocco, as well as in the jungles of North...

This history of the Catholic armies of the Habsburg Empire that fought in the Thirty Years’ War explores the role of cavalry during the last major religious war in mainland Europe, which saw the end of the large mercenary forces and the beginnings of the well-disciplined national army. This book...

Defeated in the Sino-Japanese War 1894–95 and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, Imperial China collapsed into revolution and a republic was proclaimed in 1912. From the death of the first president in 1916 to the rise of the Nationalist Kuomintang government in 1926, the differing regions of this vast...

This book is a detailed analysis of the Soviet Army at the outbreak of World War II, including the Red Army’s campaigns against Japan on the Manchurian plains as well as in Finland. It covers the Red Army’s first operations during Operation Barbarossa when the Red Army was forced to defend Mother...

In the English-speaking world, it is generally unknown that a volunteer Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) fought alongside the US Army in Italy from mid-1944 until the end of the war. This was in effect a light infantry division, consisting of three infantry regiments augmented with artillery...

In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenego, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers. Both sides were equipped with the latest weapons...

This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars. During the French and Indian War, the American...

In this second volume of a three-part series on the Soviet Armed Forces in World War II, author Nigel Thomas turns his attention to the mid-war period. Focusing on the uniforms and organization of Soviet troops during the campaigns of the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Kursk, this book offers a...

This book presents a detailed analysis of the Soviet armed forces during the final days of the war, covering the soldiers that successfully turned the tide against the Nazi onslaught and pushed it back into Germany itself. This final part of the series documents the Red Army's push through...

A detailed glimpse into the weapons, equipment and uniforms worn by Roman Centurions from the Roman Kingdom right through to the height of the Republic. Including new research, photographs of artefacts and the signature Men-at-Arms artwork, this is an essential addition to the series and includes...

In the late 19th century, the new nation-state of Italy was eager to join her European neighbours in creating an international empire, and her eyes turned toward Africa as a source of potential colonies. Securing a foothold in Eritrea on the Red Sea coast, the Italians quickly became embroiled in...

In 1798, the Irish rose up against the corrupt English government run out of Dublin. Joined by both Protestants and Catholics, the rebellion quickly spread across the country. Although the Irish peasantry were armed mostly with pikes, they were able to overwhelm a number of small, isolated...

The New Zealand Expeditionary Force earned an elite reputation on the Western Front In World War I, and the New Zealanders' war effort was a defining moment in their national history. The statistics are astonishing: of the total population of New Zealand of 1 million, no fewer than 100,000 men...

The Chaco War was massive territorial war between Bolivia and Paraguay, which cost almost a 100,000 lives. An old fashioned territorial dispute, the contested area was the Gran Chaco Boreal, a 100,000-square mile region of swamp, jungle and pampas with isolated fortified towns. The wilderness...

Long before England established a serious presence in the New World, Spain had already established an overseas Empire. In North America, this included vast tracts of territory including most of what today comprises the states of Florida, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Alabama, Illinois and...

Ever since the 15th century Switzerland had been exporting professional soldiers to serve as mercenaries for foreign monarchies. Napoleon, therefore, was not the first to make full use of the martial qualities of the Swiss and obtained Swiss agreement to expand the recruitment of regiments for...

The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC threw the Macedonians into confusion; there was no capable heir, and no clear successor among the senior figures in Alexander's circle. Initial attempts to preserve the unity of Alexander's conquests gave way to a period of bloody and prolonged warfare....

The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated. Some 400,000 Australians volunteered for active duty, an astonishing 13 per cent of the entire (white) male population, a number so great that the Australian government was...

In the years between 31 BC and AD 500 the Romans carved out a mighty empire stretching from Britain to the deserts of North Africa. The men who spearheaded this expansion were the centurions, the tough, professional warriors who led from the front, exerted savage discipline and provided a role...

Dressed in distinctive green uniforms and classically inspired copper helmets, the Dragoons of the Imperial Guard were raised in 1806 by the same criteria as other Guard units by selection of picked, literate veterans from Line regiments who had six to ten years of service, and citations for...

A mixed infantry formation made up of about 3,000 men armed with pikes, swords and handguns, the innovative and influential tercio or Spanish square' was the basic combat unit of the armies of Spain throughout much of the 16th and 17th centuries. Arguably the first permanent tactical formation...

The 10th was the only US mountain division to be raised in World War II, and still has a high profile, being involved in operations from Iraq to Somalia and from Haiti to Afghanistan. It did not arrive in Europe until winter 1944/45, but then fought hard in the harsh mountainous terrain of...

In August 1745 Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender', landed in Scotland and sparked the Second Jacobite Rising. The Jacobite forces seized Perth, then Edinburgh, where they proclaimed the Young Pretender's father King James VIII; they trounced their Hanoverian opponents at Prestonpans and...

From humble beginnings, in the course of three centuries the Portuguese built the world's first truly global empire, stretching from modern Brazil to sub-Saharan Africa and from India to the East Indies (Indonesia). Portugal had established its present-day borders by 1300 and the following...

The tragic national epic of Polish history began in these late 18th-century wars. Under Poland's Saxon monarchy, Russia and Prussia constantly meddled in the affairs of the Kingdom. In 1768 a civil war broke out between pro-Russian Commonwealth' Poles and Confederate' patriots who opposed foreign...

In 1939 more than 140,000 New Zealanders enlisted to fight overseas during World War II. Of these, 104,000 served in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Initially thrown into the doomed campaign to halt the German blitzkrieg on Greece and Crete (1941), the division was rebuilt under the...

Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers. The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the...

This focuses on the history, costume, and material culture of the native peoples of North America. It was in the Southwest modern Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of California and other neighboring states that the first major clashes took place between 16th-century Spanish conquistadors and the...

On April 15th 1861, the day after the fall of Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 volunteers to enlist for three months service to defend the Union. This 90-day period proved entirely unrealistic and was followed by further, and much more extensive, mobilizations....

Facing off against Byzantines, Arabs, Vikings, Turks, Mongols, and Russians, this steppe culture dominated Black Sea and Caucasus trade during Medieval times.The Bulgars were a Turkic people who established a state north of the Black Sea, and who showed similarities with the Alans and Sarmatians....

In the 1970s, during the ruinous 30-year dictatorship of General Mobutu, periodic rebellions required the hasty insertion once again of Belgian and French paratroops to save European lives. From the mid-1990s the country split again, becoming the battleground for the largest African war in...

The armies of Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium bore the first crushing impact of Hitler's mighty Blitzkrieg war machine in Western Europe, in a campaign that astonished and terrified the world. The German Wehrmacht was millions strong, equipped with the latest guns, tanks and...

The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive federation of merchant guilds based in harbour towns along the North Sea and Baltic coasts of what are now Germany and her neighbours, which eventually dominated maritime trade in Northern Europe and spread its influence much further afield. The...

The Spanish Civil War, 1936 39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. It was the first great clash of 20th-century ideologies, between the rebel Nationalist army led by General Franco (right-wing, and aided by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy), and...

The Prussian Army of the Lower Rhine, led by Bl cher in 1815, played a crucial part in the Allied victory at Waterloo, and was involved in intense fighting at Wavre and Ligny. Delving into original sources, including eyewitness accounts and regimental histories known only to German scholars, this...

Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this engaging study explains and illustrates the armies that fought in the epic struggle for the rebirth of the independent Polish nation, in the bitter aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution.In 1917 Poland was recognized as a...

This book offers an extensive overview of the myriad Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. The conflict was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. Featuring specially commissioned, full-color artwork, this second part of a two-part...

The War of the Triple Alliance is the largest single conflict in the history of South America. Drawing Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay into conflict the war was characterized by extraordinarily high casualty rates, and was to shape the future of an entire continent - depopulating Paraguay...

Armies of Castile and Aragon depicts the fighting men whose skill and tactical flexibility made Spain into a world power at the close of the Middle Ages, carving out empires from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean.

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